The glory of "Inglourious Basterds"

After a long break, I happen to see Inglorious Basterds. This is the only film where another actor Christoph Waltz did better than Brad Pitt when co-starred. Brad Pitt's accent is memorable. Like all Tarantino films, music plays a vital role in the film. And what's more is, the great Ennio Morricone's tracks can be heard in most part of the film. Unmistakably, Inglorious Basterds is another crown to Quentin Tarantino's masterpieces.

Album Arts for Nokia Phones

Recently, I got my hands on Nokia E71. After I transfer my songs from PC to Phone, no album art is shown in media player of Nokia. Being a itunes freak myself, I maintain album art for literally thousands of my favourite songs. So I am shocked having seen no Album art in my phone. I tried many softwares like for instance MP3 tag, etc but in vain.

Finally I discovered a great software called salling software which is free (http://www.salling.com/MediaSync/Mac/)especially for syncing itunes songs with Nokia smartphones and many other mobiles. It perfectly synchronises itunes playlists with nokia mobiles and viola! the album art is shown in nokia mobile.

I think most of the nokia phones users are bit frustrated about not showing any album art in their equip. So make use of this software. Remember, It can sync only songs from itunes which is also a free software(http://www.apple.com/itunes/). It is the most beloved music player of mine without which I cannot exist. Have fun with both itunes and salling media sync.

Broadband Users

For most of the night birds who downloads during night time using torrents or like, the biggest problem is waking up at 2Am(for BSNL) and switching on our system to start downloading.

Here is a simple solution. Use the following program to automatically switch on your system. It is enough to put the system on hibernation before you are going to sleep. So no power is consumed. At a specified time, your system automatically wakes up from hibernation, connect to the internet and start downloading. At a specified time, it will automatically closes downloading and shut down your system. You can have a nice sleep continuously.

The link is,
http://rapidshare.com/files/134576421/Auto_Power-On_Shut-Down_v2.20.rar

To automatically connect your system to internet, use the following command in a batch file,
rasdial [connection name] [user name] [password]

"The Lost Symbol" is at a loss of mysteries.

As soon as I come to know of the novel's release, I couldn't help myself not to think about it. The feeling is "When can I lay my hands on it". Finally, unable to get the novel, I read the e book version in my mobile. The starting of the novel itself has similarities to Da Vinci Code. While a man is dead in DVC, here a man's hand alone exhibited from which both the novels starts adventurous racing. Langdon is helped by woman's related to the victims in both novels as granddaughter and sister. Like any other Brown's novel, there is always two plots running parallel which is boring. I mean why can't he have multiple plots.

Also the villain character is not similar but same as in "Red Dragon". A person who already read Red Dragon cannot help but to think of Francis Dolarhyde whenever the villain comes in picture . It's because the villain Dolarhyde is more lively in readers mind because of Thomas Harris's splendid work. When I wikiped it, the opinion is same with many readers.

And for God's sake, brown simply hides the truth which is already there and reveals it later to call it as a mystery. He do this to me right from his first novel itself which I can't take it anymore. But for other facets, I would tell that the novel has usual crypts, conspiracies, etc.
Brown could have done it better. I would give a rating of 3 out of 5.

CA Final Exam

I am very happy that I could clear the first group in CA Final Exam even though I appeared for both the groups. For guys who don't know the rules, understand that even failing in single paper in one of the four papers in first group will make you write you all the four papers in your next attempt and rules apply to the second group also. So getting passed is pretty much tough in CA. Now that I have completed first group in my first attempt, I intended to write well for second group and hope that I will clear in the next attempt itself. To be honest, I prepared for first group alone and for appearance sake written the second group. So I am not much sad about my failure in second group.

Catch - 22

Until last week, I though maybe Rushdie is a great writer after reading his 'Midnight Children'. His ways of expressing things, I like it a lot.

But when I finished Catch - 22 last week, my judgment which had been holding wise for the past 1 year has been shattered and without doubt I made myself clear that here is a guy (Joseph Heller) who is great even than Rushdie and I mean it.

Heller writes wild and crazy things which even a sane man can love. He contradicts what he says previously and again contradicts with what he said second. The funny thing is this new contradiction still contradicts what he told first.

One of the famous quote from the novel,

"There was only one catch and that was Catch-22, which specified that a concern for one's safety in the face of dangers that were real and immediate was the process of a rational mind. Orr was crazy and could be grounded. All he had to do was ask; and as soon as he did, he would no longer be crazy and would have to fly more missions. Orr would be crazy to fly more missions and sane if he didn't, but if he was sane he had to fly them. If he flew them he was crazy and didn't have to; but if he didn't want to he was sane and had to. Yossarian was moved very deeply by the absolute simplicity of this clause of Catch-22 and let out a respectful whistle.

"That's some catch, that Catch-22," he observed.

"It's the best there is," Doc Daneeka agreed."

Just Introduction

For a long time, I thought to blog. So here I am. Decided to review movies and novels because they are the stuffs I have been doing lately and for long. From now on, its rock N roll.